From kde-core-devel  Wed May 16 12:34:07 2001
From: Matthias Elter <elter () trolltech ! com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:34:07 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: What's the deal with kdedb?
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On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:24:33PM +0000, Henrik Johnson wrote:
> 
> On 5/16/01, 2:47:39 PM, aleXXX <alexander.neundorf@rz.tu-ilmenau.de> wrote 
> regarding Re: What's the deal with kdedb?:
> 
> 
> > On Wednesday 16 May 2001 13:45, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:16:27AM -0400, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> > > > and wait for QT3/KDE3.
> > >
> > > Just for the record, the plan is to port KDE 2.x to Qt3. There wont be a
> > > KDE 3.0 for at least another year. Maintaining the 2.x platform is 
> critical
> > > for KDE now. So we might have a stable KDE 2.X based on Qt3 in fall 2001.

> > This helps nothing. Since Qt 3 will be binary incompatible to Qt 2, all 
> our
> > KDE libs will be binary incompatible.
> > Then there is no point in keeping it "KDE  2".

Sure there is a point. This is not about breaking BC. We want to avoid the KDE 2.0 nightmare which resulted from porting to Qt2 and working on a new platform at the same time.

And there is no point in naming the KDE 2 platform ported to Qt3 KDE 3.

Matthias